“Hey, it’s f*cking real. This really works, doesn’t it?”

 

“A good harvest for the first time in a while. Let’s see… wow, isn’t that a Griffin?”

 

“We’ll get more Griffins later. But what’s that thing with it?”

 

The noise definitely belonged to humans.

 

Rough, loud voices that were harsh to the ear. I didn’t feel good. The calm sensation in my heart faded away, and it began to beat fast.

“What… Wait, isn’t that a woman in the corner? A human woman?”

“A banshee, she must have transformed. Oh, but banshees bring bad luck… “

“That’s because someone dies when that b*tch cries, you idiot. You’re just pretending to be smart at the end of the day.”

 

Without any hesitation, the people who came into the cave chatted with excitement.

 

Two men and one woman. They were all very suspicious, armed with odd-shaped equipment, and as excited as hunters who discovered wonderful game, rather than being frightened by the sight of Popo and Griffin.

 

I had a feeling I knew what they were– Poachers.

 

I had heard of poachers, who illegally hunt and collect monster cores by purchasing relics in the black market. They seemed to have been led into the forest after detecting magic with the relic they had.

“Hey, that’s a shame. Banshees are supposed to be dirty old witches, but this one is a beauty…”

 

“Let’s get this over with. I saw earlier that there were paladins all over the place, and if we get caught, we’re really screwed.”

 

I didn’t move a muscle. I hardly breathed. Popo and Griffin were strangely still.

 

The man holding a light blue shining sword approached Popo as if he was amazed. Popo’s mouth was tightly closed, hiding its teeth.

 

“I don’t think they’re coming here. The legend said that a giant lizard cub was asleep here… but what the f*ck is this? Rabbit or raccoon? What was the name of this thing? It looks so stupid.”

“Hey, let’s get this one first. The monster is pretending to be a human being.” The flaming red-haired woman gestured toward me.

 

At that moment, a man who was scratching his stomach turned toward me, smacking his lips.

 

“Ku, ku, ku, ku…”

 

Griffin let out a sound of laughter. To be exact, it was more of a low, bizarre cry, but to my ears, it sounded like a laugh. And… Popo opened its mouth. Popo’s wide-open mouth enlarged throughout its huge body, revealing a space full of eerily beautiful sharp teeth and skeletons.

 

I didn’t make any noise until the end.

The sky seemed to be getting darker and darker, and the heavy rain began to pour. The sky-high trees didn’t help much either.

 

“Lord Izek.”

 

Someone put out a cigarette of leaves. Izek shook his head as a gesture of rejection and looked at Durahan’s corpse at his feet. It was the monster he’d caught a while ago. Only the remaining monster core and the severed head rolled around at his feet.

 

did they only

 

his view. Everyone seemed tired of the three-day search, but it was

 

a no-go here, too.” Ivan, who almost kicked the

 

not reply. He had been hearing it for

 

“You know what, Iz.”

 

when he was desperate or something was missing. Izek turned his back because he knew what he was going

 

been searching the forest

 

Guards, the Knights of Longinus and the Round Table Knights, were concentrated here after the

 

working together without making noise for a long time,

 

this point, they should seriously consider the hypothesis that the madman who kidnapped Rudbeckia, intentionally threw a

 

was a more promising

 

indeed been dragged into this area, by now…

 

“Iz.”

 

back, Izek stared

 

kept looking at it. Something

 

already been

 

“It’s been four days.”

 

“Huh?”

 

“Four days.”

 

There was silence.

 

Ivan dropped his head. Because he suddenly felt miserable. It was the same for Izek, who said this. It was around dawn three days ago when he found the shoe, but it was

 

later that he found

 

day after Ellenia had sent

 

is, no one knew until then that

 

It didn’t make sense.

 

impossible that no one knew about her disappearance for nearly a day, who required servants for

 

Nevertheless, that had happened.

 

he blame? Who should he

 

that invited her in the first place? She had been hanging around all day. The coachman and the

 

she hadn’t returned home? The Duke who was in the manor all

 

the evening after visiting Freya, and received no report until she went

 

Or himself?

 

his face wet with rainwater roughly with the back

 

he was the only

 

fault, but it was never her fault. His foolishness, him not knowing how Rudbeckia was being treated in his house when he was absent, came backstabbing like

 

the chief maid who was close to a mother for

 

harsh they could be

 

revealed, because the maid was forty years old, Ellenia covered for her. He thought that was the root of it all

 

shouldn’t have done

 

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